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Karin Pappenheim wrote to the editor of The Times to highlight the day of action by the haemophilia community and called on the Prime Minister to respond to calls for financial assistance for people with haemophilia who had been infected with Hepatitis C.

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The Haemophilia Society's calls for a public inquiry followed on from the announcement of Frank Dobson, the Secretary of State for Health, on 27th July 1998 that financial recompense in relation to Hepatitis C would not be given.

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The Haemophilia Society sought to persuade the Health Select Committee to undertake an inquiry looking into safety issues posed by blood-borne viruses, including HIV, Hepatitis C.

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The Haemophilia Society's chief executive, Karin Pappenheim, wrote to Frank Dobson seeking his support for a full public inquiry.

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At a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hepatitis C, Karin Pappenheim explained that the Haemophilia Society's campaign for a public inquiry was "also about truth and social recognition".

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Karin Pappenheim wrote to the British Medical Journal setting out the Haemophilia Society's call for a public inquiry.

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Lord Morris wrote to Prime Minister Tony Blair seeking a meeting with him and representatives of the Haemophilia Society about the case for a public inquiry.

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Lord Morris asked Baroness Helene Hayman when a response to the Haemophilia Society's request for a public inquiry might be expected, to which she replied "that a public inquiry was not the way forward".

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Baroness Helene Hayman was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health.

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Lord Morris' letter requesting an inquiry was forwarded to the Department of Health by the Prime Minister's Assistant Private Secretary.

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Sir Tony Blair expressed confidence that "investigations would have been undertaken" at the time he declined to hold a public inquiry.

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Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote a letter to Lord Morris suggesting that "it is best to take steps that are positive and which look to the future".

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Scottish campaigners echoed the Haemophilia Society's calls for a public inquiry in the UK.

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A press release in Scotland demonstrated Scottish campaigners echoing the Haemophilia Society's calls for a public inquiry in the UK

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Lord Hunt responded to Lord Morris' question that "the Government have great sympathy with haemophilia patients who were infected with hepatitis C before the means existed to remove the virus from blood products".

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When asked about a public inquiry, Lord Hunt responded that careful consideration had been given and that it was not believed to be the way forward.

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Lord Hunt responded to questions that he believed all the facts had "been produced in various debates in your Lordships' House and in the other place".

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In a letter to Joyce Quinn, John Hutton responded in a similar vein to that of Lord Hunt: that a public inquiry had been given consideration and was not believed to be the way forward.

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Lord Hunt told the Inquiry that he had understood "the default position in government was to resist the many calls for various public inquiries unless there were compelling reasons to do so.."

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Lord Hunt told the Inquiry that "with the benefit of hindsight and more fulsome information" he believed that the calls for a public inquiry were justified.

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